School of Nursing Educational Technology Group 
School of Nursing Educational Technology Group This section lists ongoing e-learning-related projects in the School, drawn up by Heather Wharrad. If you know of any project not listed here, please get in touch with Heather or the SONET organiser.
Project team: Professor Tom Boyle (London Metropolitan University), Dawn Leeder (University of Cambridge), Dr Heather Wharrad, John Cook (London Metropolitan University)
HEFCE have announced the outcome of the competitive bidding for Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. London Metropolitan University is the lead site for a successful bid that has been awarded £3.3 million over five years to create a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) in Reusable Learning Objects.
The CETL represents a collaboration between London Metropolitan, and the Universities of Cambridge and Nottingham. London Metropolitan has an outstanding track record in educational software development, as evidenced by the recent European Academic Software Award for its learning objects. Cambridge and Nottingham have extensive experience in practitioner development and support in the making of learning objects and have run “unlocking content” workshops to international acclaim.
The CETL proposes a bold programme that will combine the strengths of the partners for the benefit of all. The area chosen – reusable learning objects – is particularly appropriate for the collaborative development, sharing and adapted re-use of high quality resources. These resources will significantly enhance and extend the quality of the learning experience available to students both in the partner institutions, and throughout the sector. Staff development and support in the production and use of learning objects is an important role of the CETL, and this will be provided at each of the partner sites and by an innovative residential programme based at Cambridge .
The three institutions that have been awarded this funding have very different profiles, and cover a broad spectrum of higher education in the UK. This is considered to be a significant strength of the collaboration; the learning objects developed and used in this collaboration should meet the needs of any UK higher education institution. All three universities are committed to widening participation from different sections of society, and all plan to use technology to enhance the learning experience of students. The development, sharing and use of reusable learning objects is seen as an important, and economically sound, contribution towards achieving these shared strategic goals.
HEFCE (£3.3 million)
(2004). Universities’ Collaboration in eLearning (UCeL): a virtual community of practice in health professional education. In IADIS Web-based communities 2004 pp. 386 – 393 Edited by: Kommers, P., Isaias, P. & Nunes, M B. ISBN:972-98947-4-4 IADIS Press
(2004). To boldly glo – towards the next generation of learning objects. E-learn International 2004 Washington 1-4 Nov 2004. Panel presentation accepted.
(2004). Developing the next generation of reusable learning objects . ALT-C Exeter September 2004. Symposium accepted
(2004). Reusable Learning Objects the easy way: how to make high quality eLearning content. Workshop proposal. Accepted Slice of Life 2004, 28 June - 3 July 2004, Amsterdam & Leiden, Netherlands
(2004). Universities' Collaboration in eLearning (UCeL): enabling an effective community of practice. Abstract accepted Slice of Life 2004, 28 June - 3 July 2004, Amsterdam & Leiden, Netherlands
(2004). Universities’ Collaboration
in eLearning (UCeL): a virtual community of practice in health professional
education. Presented at IADIS
Web-based comm unities 2004, 24-26 March 2004, Lisbon, Portugal
IADIS Web-based communities 2004 pp. 386 – 393 Edited by: Kommers, P.,
Isaias, P. & Nunes, M B. ISBN:972-98947-4-4 IADIS Press 2004
(2004). Universities’ Collaboration in eLearning (UCeL): a community of practice. eLearnInternational 2004 18-19 FebruaryEdinburgh International Conference Centre
(2003). Experiences with re-usable learning objects: process and evaluation. Paper presented at Association for Learning Technology conference (ALT-C) ‘Communities of Practice’ , University of Sheffield.
(2002). Beyond Institutional Boundaries: reusable learning objects for multi-professional education.
Project team: Dr Gary Adams& Dr Heather Wharrad with Dr D Schofield (Computer Sciences
For more details of this project bid, and downloadable 3-D demonstrations, see the TICL website.
A bid to NESTA is in preparation.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/lola/
Project Team: Dr H J Wharrad, Dr S Timmons, Dr J. Randle, N Vaughn, Dr J Lymn, T Hills, W Shaw, L Williams, L Herman & Dr F Bath-Hextall
This cross sector collaborative project is being funded by the Eduserv Foundation to develop a range of multimedia reusable learning objects (RLOs) covering topics related to Infection Control and Medicines & Prescribing. Stored in a repository, these learning objects will then be available for use in a range of courses in FE, HE and the NHS.
Eduserv
Project team: Jo Sanderson-Mann, Dr F Mccandless & Dr H J Wharrad,) 2003 -
Coping with dyslexia in a Work Based Learning Environment: a study to identify nursing students’ and mentors’ needs. Almost 200 nursing students are currently registered as dyslexic on the University Study Support register, the funding will be used to carry out research and provide a multimedia web based resource to support students and mentors.
Project team: E. Cook, Dr H J Wharrad & C. Poussa (2002-2003)
This work has been used to inform the development of the Continuing Professional Development web site supporting over 100 post registration modules and over 2000 students)
LTSN Health Sciences & Practice (£3600)
(2005). Putting post-registration nursing students on-line: important lessons learned. Nurse Education Today (accepted for publication)
Project team: Dr F Bath-Hextall, Dr H J Wharrad, Dr J Lymn (2003- )
Development and evaluation of the use of RLOs in a post-registration Nurse Prescribing course
(2004). Reusable Learning Objects with WebCT to enhance a nurse prescribing course AMEE. Edinburgh 5-8 September (platform)
Project team: Dr H J Wharrad, Dr C Kent, Dr N Allcock, Dr A Meal
12 interactive learning packages on Cell Biology developed from 1995 –2000. Up to 2004, these have directly benefited 500 undergraduate nursing students and are available to all students on the university network.
HEFCE TLTP (£8600)
(2002). Symposium on the use of technology based teaching and learning in nurse education (three papers) presented at the 4th European Regional Conference Commonwealth Nurses Federation ‘Nursing and the Commonwealth Agenda: the European Perspective’ Nicosia, Cyprus.
(2001). A comparison of CAL with a conventional method of delivery of cell biology to undergraduate nursing students using an experimental design. Nurse Education Today, 21, 579-588
(2000). Development and evaluation of a series of CAL modules on Cell Biology for undergraduate nursing students. B. J. Educational Technology, 31 (3) 216-264
Project team: F Todhunter
University of Nottingham T&L (£3505)
Project team: Stephen Timmons
Philosophy of Social Science is a compulsory module for postgraduate research study in the School of Nursing. As philosophy is very unfamiliar to most students, they can have difficulty with making the connections between the various philosophical concepts discussed in the module, and then further connecting concepts to their programmes of research.
I propose to develop a website that will use the hypertextual nature of the WWW to help students understand those connections. The website will be integrated with the existing programme of lectures and seminars. It will elucidate how various themes thread through the material covered in the module.
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